Thermodynamic and Resistive Transitions of Thin Superconducting Films
- 14 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (2) , 98-102
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.98
Abstract
In amorphous, nongranular, thin films of Ge, the temperature dependence of the resistance and the current-voltage relation have been investigated at temperatures below the experimentally determined thermodynamic transition. This temperature-dependent resistance is compared to several theories which predict flux-flow resistance below the BCS transition temperature due to thermally excited vortex pairs.
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